Police keep watch downtown following gunshots

A strong police presence kept watch over the busy downtown riverfront on Easter Sunday, a week after gunshots left two people wounded and only hours after video on social media showed shots being fired from cars in the same area.

The Facebook video showed shots fired in a crowded parking lot near Wagner and Beale streets shortly after midnight. Police Sunday reported no problems, however, except for what they termed a misdemeanor vandalism at 200 Wagner.

MPD spokesman Louis Brownlee said the victim reported she left her vehicle about 11:30 p.m. Saturday and when she returned about 3 a.m. Sunday, the rear window and a rear passenger window had been broken. Brownlee said officers indicated the damage appeared to have been caused by a bullet, but there was no indication whether the incident was connected to the shots shown being fired in the video. Brownlee said an investigation was continuing.

Brownlee added late Sunday evening that additional officers were assigned to the area and that all cameras in the downtown area were being monitored. He said there was also additional traffic details.

Last Sunday, an altercation between two groups near Beale Street Landing and Tom Lee Park left two people, including a woman bystander, wounded. Two teenage brothers were later charged.